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Almost eighty percent of respondents in a new study expressed concern about the absence of physical contact with their elderly relatives Research New Zealand Managing Partner Emmanuel Kalafatelis… Audio

Contact tracing is critical to New Zealand's ability to combat any further outbreaks of Covid-19, but is two weeks too late to wait for an app that will assist with that? National's health… Audio

The National Party says the country's contact tracing of positive Covid-19 cases is still not up to scratch.

It says that the Minister of Health does not have crucial data about potential virus… Audio

Businesses are desperate to know what minimum amount of contact tracing they must provide when the country drops down to Alert Level 3 next week.

An app developer says technology allows this to be… Audio

Businesses wanting to re-open next week when the country moves out of lockdown are trying to figure out what contact tracing they need to do.

The Government has said collecting information about… Audio

The Goverment's goal for Covid 19 is elimination and to that end contact tracing is crucial. Associate Professor Dr Arindam Basu from the University of Canterbury looks at whether or not we have the… Audio

Scientists need to find new ways to track the contacts of people who may have had Covid-19, as case numbers plummet.

That's according to Ayesha Verrall, who audited the national contact tracing… Audio

New Zealand's Alert Level 4 lockdown has been extended for a little over a week, ending just before midnight on Monday 27 April.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Morning Report the extension was… Audio

New Zealand needs to be able to contact trace up to 1,000 cases of Covid-19 - in case of a large outbreak in the next two years.

That is among the recommendations in a new report into contact tracing… Video, Audio

Jacinda Ardern will announce if we are to head into Alert level 3 from Thursday at the weekly post-Cabinet media conference today.

Central to that decision is the efficiency of contact tracing… Audio

The Health Ministry has been consulting with the state spy agency, the GCSB, about how best to trace people as it works to get its Covid-19 systems up to speed.

A tech industry leader says it's… Audio

A top pandemic advisor to the Government says the data around contact tracing is still weak, just five days before the Government will decide whether to ease the lockdown.

Physics professor Shaun… Audio

Comprehensive contact tracing is being touted as the single most important thing New Zealand could do to stay out of another lockdown. Around the world, many countries are looking at how technology… Audio

Fourteen days away from the big decision over whether we can move out of lockdown big questions remain over how the country will be able to stamp out flareups of Covid-19.

Experts agree, rapid, mass… Audio

At the half way point of the four week level four Covid-19 lockdown Chief Science advisor Professor Juliet Gerrard, talks to Kathryn Ryan about the importance of contact tracing Audio

Sarita Das, a somatic sex educator, has some advice for those struggling with the lack of physical contact at this time. Audio

The country's three major IT groups say they have been left out of the loop over picking the right technology for contact tracing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This despite the consensus that rapid… Audio

The prime minister's former chief science adviser says that rapid contact tracing is critical to the success of fighting Covid-19.

The government has broadened its testing criteria for the virus… Audio

The government is expecting a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases after broadening its testing criteria. 

This means contact tracing capacities will need to be ramped up - and phone apps could… Audio

Modelling by New Zealand researchers shows how the country is buying time in the fight against Covid-19.

There is no certainty the four-week lockdown will be enough. Researchers say that left… Video, Audio

Worried parents from an Auckland secondary school are trying to work out how to best isolate their children after the whole school was declared closed because of coronavirus.

There are now four… Audio

One of the strongest weapons we have in the fight against Covid 19 is contact tracing.  Audio

In a bid to keep staff and patients safe, GP's around the country will today move to virtual appointments, aiming to reduce face-to-face contact by 70 per cent. The Royal New Zealand College of… Audio

The Prostitutes Collective is urging sex workers to contact Work and Income New Zealand amid the covid-19 pandemic. It's National Coordinator, Dame Catherine Healy says sex workers are going to take a… Audio